Intellectual Property Law Blog
Member Gavin Parsons Once Again Ranked by Chambers USA for Commercial Litigation
CARY, N.C. (May 2020) – Coats & Bennett, PLLC is pleased to announce that Member Gavin Parsons has been listed in the 2020 Edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Litigation: General Commercial (North Carolina). Chambers USA ranks attorneys...
Serving Foreign IP Scoundrels Electronically
An increasing problem for copyright and trademark owners are infringers in foreign countries who use Amazon and other services to sell infringing products online in the United States. Although a complaint under the service’s intellectual property policy may cause the...
C&B Attorneys to Attend Hispanic National Bar Association Conference in Phoenix, AZ
Coats & Bennett attorneys William G. Pagán and Krista Contino Saumby will be attending the Hispanic National Bar Association's 2020 Corporate Counsel Conference & Moot Court Competition being held on March 19-22 in Phoenix, AZ. Despite Hispanics accounting for...
Gavin Parsons Named Member of Coats & Bennett, PLLC
Coats & Bennett, PLLC, one of the nation’s highest rated intellectual property law firms, is proud to announce that Gavin Parsons has been elected as a Member of the Firm. Mr. Parsons is a veteran litigator who represents clients across numerous industries in high...
The importance of due diligence in IP acquisition
Are you in the process of acquiring a business? Or perhaps your company is interested in buying a product from a third-party seller. Either of these scenarios requires careful consideration of the seller’s intellectual property (IP). This is where due diligence comes...
Influenced or illegal?
No artist lives in a vacuum. All artists learn their art from the works and artists that preceded them. Painters study countless styles and techniques. Filmmakers track the shots, lighting and dialogue of older movies. And musicians develop their talents and tastes as...
Attorneys Will Pagán & Ed Green Undefeated on Appeal in 2019
Coats & Bennett is proud to announce that Attorneys William G. Pagán and Edward H. Green III both had unblemished records on Appeal before the Patent Trials and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2019, obtaining complete reversals of the Examiner's rejections in six out of...
Epic Games settles with games tester in violation of his NDA
What does it take to succeed in business? The answer is, of course, many things. You need to have something that someone wants, and you need to have a way to get it to them. You also need to monetize that exchange. And behind it all? You need a plan to separate...
Attorney William G. Pagán Named to IP Rising Stars List
Coats & Bennett is proud to announce that, for the second consecutive year, William G. Pagán has been named to Super Lawyers' North Carolina Intellectual Property Rising Stars list. No more than 2.5% of all attorneys in the state are named to the Rising Stars...
New Hurdles for IPR Petitioners Seeking to Rely on Printed Publications
Printed publications often are the best source of evidence that a patent claim is invalid. For example, textbooks, technical specifications, whitepapers, and even comments posted in an online forum can include details that provide one or more grounds under 35 U.S.C....